Graham Snowdon Our speaker Paul Iseard might be a southerner by accident of birth, but he is a fan of all things Sheffield as the former owner of the famous and eponymous Sheffield Shop on Ecclesall Road and Chair of the Trustees of the Friends of Portland Works, home to more than 30 artisan craftspeople. Sheffield cutlery, … Read more
John Smith was an eminent pathologist before his retirement – a consultant gynaecological histopathologist and cytopathologist at Sheffield Teaching Hospitals NHS Foundation Trust – but has had a lifelong interest in naval warfare. Probably to the relief of most of those present, he chose the latter as his subject when he agreed to come and … Read more
Not so much a visit, unless you regard the bowlers’ clubhouse next door to the main Fulwood Sports Club building as a destination in its own right, but we had a very enjoyable social bowls evening, followed by a pie and pea supper in the main bar, on one of the warmest and sunniest evenings … Read more
A packed house at Fulwood Sports Club – it was almost standing room only – suggested that members were eagerly anticipating what turned out to be a spellbinding talk. Indeed, Martin Rowley’s graphic slideshow presentation came with a health warning for the more squeamish amongst us. Almost all large cities had their gang wars, especially … Read more
Computers have changed most people’s lives beyond recognition over the last 30 or 40 years. The Tandy 200 laptop terminals I was using as a journalist in the 1980s had a built-in memory of roughly 20,000 bytes, sufficient to upload 3,000 words of text into a newspaper’s editorial system. There are one million bytes in … Read more
More than three years after lockdown and our last very successful visit to the Sheffield Assay Office, Stumperlowe Probus Club resumed what will hopefully be a regular programme of outside visits when we toured Yorkshire Water’s Ewden fresh water treatment plant on the River Don north of Sheffield. Yorkshire Water is one of the largest … Read more